W3C Patent Policy Fact Sheet

The statistics below relate to the specifications published since the W3C Patent Policy became operational in February 2004.

Licensing commitments for W3C Specifications produced under the Patent Policy

For each specification, we list the number of W3C Members (not Team or Invited Experts) who have made the Royalty-Free licensing commitments of the W3C Patent Policy for that specification. Each entry also links to a page with more details about the licensing commitments, disclosures, and patent exclusions for that specification.

Summary as of 29 November 2006:

109 specifications
produced by 34 W3C Working Groups operating under the W3C Patent Policy
have 551 licensing commitments
made by 219 different W3C Members
with 21 disclosures and 21 patents with one or more excluded claims to date; see the summary of disclosures and exclusions for all W3C Working Groups operating under the W3C Patent Policy.

Specification	Delivered by	Number of licensing commitments from W3C Members
Advanced XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Version 1.0	XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group (IPP status)	6 commitments from the XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0	Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (IPP status)	6 commitments from the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0	Web Application Formats Working Group (IPP status)	15 commitments from the Web Application Formats Working Group
CSS Namespace Enhancements (Proposal)	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 Advanced Layout Module	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content Module	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 Paged Media Module	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 Speech Module	Voice Browser Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Voice Browser Working Group
CSS3 Text Effects Module	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 Values and Units	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Border	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Cascading and inheritance	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Fonts	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Generated Content for Paged Media	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Lists	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Multi-column layout	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Presentation Levels	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: Syntax	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: The box model	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
CSS3 module: line	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
Canonical XML 1.1	XML Core Working Group (IPP status)	7 commitments from the XML Core Working Group
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization	Internationalization Core Working Group (IPP status)	7 commitments from the Internationalization Core Working Group
Clipboard Operations for the Web 1.0: Copy, Paste, Drag and Drop.	Web APIs Working Group (IPP status)	16 commitments from the Web APIs Working Group
Compound Document Framework 1.0 and WICD Profiles	Compound Document Formats Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Compound Document Formats Working Group
Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0	Compound Document Formats Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Compound Document Formats Working Group
Content Selection Primer 1.0	Device Independence Working Group (IPP status)	11 commitments from the Device Independence Working Group
Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0	Device Independence Working Group (IPP status)	11 commitments from the Device Independence Working Group
DIAL Part 0: Primer	Device Independence Working Group (IPP status)	11 commitments from the Device Independence Working Group
Delivery Context: Interfaces (DCI) Accessing Static and Dynamic Properties	Device Independence Working Group (IPP status)	11 commitments from the Device Independence Working Group
Delivery Context: XPath Access Functions 1.0	Device Independence Working Group (IPP status)	11 commitments from the Device Independence Working Group
Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL)	Device Independence Working Group (IPP status)	11 commitments from the Device Independence Working Group
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification	Web APIs Working Group (IPP status)	16 commitments from the Web APIs Working Group
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification	SVG Working Group (IPP status)	23 commitments from the SVG Working Group
EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup language	Multimodal Interaction Working Group (IPP status)	30 commitments from the Multimodal Interaction Working Group
Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema	Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group (IPP status)	9 commitments from the Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1	XSL Working Group (IPP status)	13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
File Upload	Web APIs Working Group (IPP status)	16 commitments from the Web APIs Working Group
GRDDL Primer	GRDDL Working Group (IPP status)	8 commitments from the GRDDL Working Group
GRDDL Use Cases: Scenarios of extracting RDF data from XML documents	GRDDL Working Group (IPP status)	8 commitments from the GRDDL Working Group
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)	GRDDL Working Group (IPP status)	8 commitments from the GRDDL Working Group
Ink Markup Language	Multimodal Interaction Working Group (IPP status)	30 commitments from the Multimodal Interaction Working Group
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)	Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group (IPP status)	8 commitments from the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group
Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements	Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group (IPP status)	8 commitments from the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group
Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web	Internationalization Core Working Group (IPP status)	7 commitments from the Internationalization Core Working Group
Media Access Events	SVG Working Group (IPP status)	23 commitments from the SVG Working Group
Mobile SVG Profile: SVG Tiny, Version 1.2	SVG Working Group (IPP status)	23 commitments from the SVG Working Group
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces	Multimodal Interaction Working Group (IPP status)	30 commitments from the Multimodal Interaction Working Group
Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS) Version 1.0	Voice Browser Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Voice Browser Working Group
RDF Data Access Use Cases and Requirements	RDF Data Access Working Group (IPP status)	24 commitments from the RDF Data Access Working Group
Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0	SVG Working Group (IPP status) Web APIs Working Group (IPP status)	23 commitments from the SVG Working Group,16 commitments from the Web APIs Working Group
SPARQL Protocol for RDF	RDF Data Access Working Group (IPP status)	24 commitments from the RDF Data Access Working Group
SPARQL Query Language for RDF	RDF Data Access Working Group (IPP status)	24 commitments from the RDF Data Access Working Group
SPARQL Query Results XML Format	RDF Data Access Working Group (IPP status)	24 commitments from the RDF Data Access Working Group
SVG Print	SVG Working Group (IPP status)	23 commitments from the SVG Working Group
SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL)	SVG Working Group (IPP status)	23 commitments from the SVG Working Group
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2	SVG Working Group (IPP status)	23 commitments from the SVG Working Group
Selectors	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
Selectors API	Web APIs Working Group (IPP status)	16 commitments from the Web APIs Working Group
Semantic Annotations for WSDL	Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group (IPP status)	12 commitments from the Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group
Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition	Voice Browser Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Voice Browser Working Group
State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction 1.0	Voice Browser Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Voice Browser Working Group
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)	SYMM Working Group (IPP status)	12 commitments from the SYMM Working Group
The CSS 'Reader' Media Type	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (IPP status)	17 commitments from the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
The XMLHttpRequest Object	Web APIs Working Group (IPP status)	16 commitments from the Web APIs Working Group
Understanding WCAG 2.0	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0	Voice Browser Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Voice Browser Working Group
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1	Voice Browser Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Voice Browser Working Group
W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0	Mobile Web Best Practice Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Mobile Web Best Practice Working Group
W3C mobileOK Scheme 1.0	Mobile Web Best Practice Working Group (IPP status)	38 commitments from the Mobile Web Best Practice Working Group
WICD Full 1.0	Compound Document Formats Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Compound Document Formats Working Group
WICD Mobile 1.0	Compound Document Formats Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Compound Document Formats Working Group
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
Web Forms 2.0	Web Application Formats Working Group (IPP status)	15 commitments from the Web Application Formats Working Group
Web Services Addressing - Core	Web Services Addressing Working Group (IPP status)	22 commitments from the Web Services Addressing Working Group
Web Services Addressing - SOAP Binding	Web Services Addressing Working Group (IPP status)	22 commitments from the Web Services Addressing Working Group
Web Services Addressing - WSDL Binding	Web Services Addressing Working Group (IPP status)	22 commitments from the Web Services Addressing Working Group
Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N)	Internationalization Core Working Group (IPP status)	7 commitments from the Internationalization Core Working Group
Web Services Policy 1.5 - Attachment	Web Services Policy Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Web Services Policy Working Group
Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework	Web Services Policy Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Web Services Policy Working Group
Web Services Policy 1.5 - Primer	Web Services Policy Working Group (IPP status)	20 commitments from the Web Services Policy Working Group
WebCGM 2.0	WebCGM Working Group (IPP status)	4 commitments from the WebCGM Working Group
Widgets 1.0	Web Application Formats Working Group (IPP status)	15 commitments from the Web Application Formats Working Group
Window Object 1.0	Web APIs Working Group (IPP status)	16 commitments from the Web APIs Working Group
XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0	Web Application Formats Working Group (IPP status)	15 commitments from the Web Application Formats Working Group
XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1	XML Core Working Group (IPP status)	7 commitments from the XML Core Working Group
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0	XML Query Working Group (IPP status) XSL Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group,13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0	XML Query Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group
XML Query 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text	XML Query Working Group (IPP status) XSL Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group,13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
XML Query Use Cases	XML Query Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group
XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures	XML Schema Working Group (IPP status)	14 commitments from the XML Schema Working Group
XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes	XML Schema Working Group (IPP status)	14 commitments from the XML Schema Working Group
XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures Version 1.0	XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group (IPP status)	6 commitments from the XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group
XML Schema: Component Designators	XML Schema Working Group (IPP status)	14 commitments from the XML Schema Working Group
XML Schema: Formal Description	XML Schema Working Group (IPP status)	14 commitments from the XML Schema Working Group
XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)	XML Query Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group
XProc: An XML Pipeline Language	XML Processing Model Working Group (IPP status)	6 commitments from the XML Processing Model Working Group
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model	XML Query Working Group (IPP status) XSL Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group,13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics	XML Query Working Group (IPP status) XSL Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group,13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text Use Cases	XSL Working Group (IPP status)	13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators	XML Query Working Group (IPP status) XSL Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group,13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language	XML Query Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group
XQuery Update Facility	XML Query Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group
XQuery Update Facility Use Cases	XML Query Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0	XSL Working Group (IPP status)	13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization	XML Query Working Group (IPP status) XSL Working Group (IPP status)	19 commitments from the XML Query Working Group,13 commitments from the XSL Working Group
xml:id Version 1.0	XML Core Working Group (IPP status)	7 commitments from the XML Core Working Group

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